-PTI The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is Planning to get a study conducted to assess the reach and effectiveness of community radio stations in benefiting communities. The ministry has initiated the process of selecting a consulting agency to conduct a study on the listenership, reach and effectiveness of community radio stations in India by way of tangible and intangible, direct or indirect benefits to the community in India. It is learnt that among...

-The Pioneer India's water distribution and consumption systems must be sustainable, drought-proofed, and adapted to climate change. Then the country can move from ‘drought-relief' status to a position where it has relief from droughts The Indian Meteorological Department is still unsure of the timing and the intensity of El Niño, further raising the grim prospect of insufficient monsoons and an imminent drought poised to affect many parts of the country. According...

-The Indian Express UPA's version was inadequate. NDA must improve upon it. In your editorial on July 7 (‘A stronger Aadhaar', Indian Express) you have stated that "The BJP is complicit in Aadhaar's uncertain legal status - the UPA was forced to rely on executive orders because the UIDAI bill was held up by the Yashwant Sinha-headed standing committee on finance." The impression your editorial seeks to convey is entirely erroneous. It...

-The Indian Express Goa, with just 6.3% of its population under the poverty line, tops the list: Panel. Nearly half of Chhattisgarh's population has been estimated to be below the poverty line, according to the new definition of poverty. In contrast, Goa, with just 6.3 per cent of its residents under the poverty line, tops the list of states with the lowest poverty count. The findings are a part of the new poverty estimates...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Just days before the 2014-15 Union Budget, the government on Monday said it plans to amend the archaic Factories Act, 1948 - the first move in more than a decade to revamp labour laws. Most governments have avoided labour reforms for fear of a backlash from the politically powerful labour lobby. Companies have cited obsolete labour laws as a key hurdle for doing business and the...